单词 | master of the king's horse |
释义 | > as lemmasMaster of the King's (also Queen's) Horse(s) master of the horse n. (also †master of the horses) [originally with unchanged plural of horse : see horse n. 1b] (a) an officer in charge of the horses belonging to a sovereign, etc.; (also) an official of the British royal household who attends the monarch on state occasions and who has titular responsibility for matters of royal transport, etc. (also Master of the King's (also Queen's) Horse(s), formerly sometimes †master of horses); (b) Roman History. [after classical Latin magister equitum master of the ‘knights’ or horsemen (compare horse n. 3b); compare master of (the) chivalry at sense A. 23b(c)] , a commander of the cavalry appointed by a dictator of the Roman Republic; (c) humorously a head groom or stableman.extracted from mastern.1adj.< as lemmas |
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